I keep seeing posts worth several thousands, and while it may take time to receive that payout it will eventually happen. Having posts worth 15k-17k that are simply copy pasted, yes informative but still copy pasted nonetheless don't add that much of a value to the community and the person or persons copy pasting shouldn't receive that much in my opinion.
Therefore I think a maximum cap of $1,000 per post would be beneficial not only for protecting investors in steemit from a DIEM like currency in a few years, but also to keep steemits integrity intact, otherwise I feel a lot of the articles will just become flashy firework shows in attempt to get the readers to upvote in effort to earn large amounts of money, whales could abuse it as well by liking/upvoting alternate accounts posts to gain more money for virtually free.
Lastly, when a post is that big/trending I've noticed it seems like everyone upvotes it - not because of the content but because they want to see how high it will go I guess? Not quite sure honestly.
Anyways expecting this to get downvoted and pushed into oblivion. #endrant #steemit #letskeepsteemitgreat